About Me

I was a reporter and columnist for 40 years for a chain of newspapers in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm a military veteran having served in the United States Army Combat Engineers (Cpl. E-4) and a Korean War veteran with an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America

Sunday, April 26, 2009

In light of what we have been posting about the suicide of Allysa Peterson, a 27-year old member of the U.S. Army assigned to TORTURE Iraqi prisoners, we thought we would post a video showing how women perform their tasks as members of the United States military on duty in Iraq.WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/pQcAxhggCRY&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

Allysa Peterson was a beautiful 27-year old soldier assigned to an Iraqi prison where torturetechniques were being used on Iraqi prisoners. Allysa had already seen what the Bush/Cheney "regime" wanted done to Iraqi prisoners and it had sickened her. She refused to be a part of the barbaric practice of torturing Iraqi prisoners and committed suicide. For years the Bush/Cheney "regime" and the U.S. military covered up the cause of her death, but now the full story has come out. Allysa's untimely death is just another nail in the coffin that hopefully will bring former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney before a judge and jury where they along with others from the Bush administration will be charged with WAR CRIMES.You can read more about Allysa Peterson here:U.S. Soldier Killed Herself -- After Refusing to Take Part in Torturehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/us-soldier-killed-herself_b_190517.html

Torture methods claimed life of US soldierSun, 26 Apr 2009 07:22:30 GMThttp://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92588&sectionid=3510203A US soldier who worked as an interpreter in Iraq's prisons has shot herself dead after witnessing harsh interrogation methods by the US military.Alyssa Peterson from Arizona shot herself with her service rifle at Tal-Afar air base in northern Iraq on September 15, 2003, the Independent reported on SundayPeterson had protested to her superiors about the torture tactics that were very different from the ones she had known in training and had asked to be reassigned before the incident.The cause of her death was kept secret for two years, and the mystery of what Peterson witnessed, and the content of the notes she made, still goes on. An Arab-speaker, Peterson was assigned to work as an interpreter at interrogation sessions in a unit known as "The Cage." After only two nights, she refused to take further part in the sessions and was reassigned, according to the Independent.Her family was told she had died from a "non-hostile weapons discharge." The army revealed Peterson had killed herself after Arizona reporter Kevin Elston investigated the case.The army refused to say what interrogation she objected to, and maintain that all documents relating to methods used at Tal-Afar have been destroyed.

As the blog post below shows, Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair magazine volunteered to go through a waterboarding process and in this video you see Hitchens arguing with FOX NEWS' Bill O'Reilly over torture and waterboarding. I counted at least two times where O'Reilly, as usual, had his facts wrong. WATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/8pAB0l9yYJ8&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO

Christopher Hitchens, the author of many books and a contributor to Vanity Fair magazine, agreed to be waterboarded. In this video you see what happens to Hitchens during the waterboarding and he explains after the demonstration what it felt like. Amazing video.TURN YOUR SPEAKERS UPWATCH VIDEO HERE:http://www.youtube.com/v/4LPubUCJv58&hl=en&fs=1CLICK ON DIAMOND-SHAPED ARROW TO PLAY VIDEO